. Review of reviews and world's work. the CivilWar, and reconstruction. An introduction is contrib-uted by United States Senator Philander C. Knox, ofPennsylvania. WORKS OF HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. The ninth volume of the Cambridge Modern His-tory (Macmillan), edited by Drs. A. W. Ward andG. W. Prothero and Mr. Stanley Ijcathes, considersNapoleon. In the nine hundred and forty-six pagesof this volume all the estimates of Napoleons characterand the valuations of his work that are worth con-sideration by the student and general reader are setforth, and an impartial survey of the facts in his car
. Review of reviews and world's work. the CivilWar, and reconstruction. An introduction is contrib-uted by United States Senator Philander C. Knox, ofPennsylvania. WORKS OF HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. The ninth volume of the Cambridge Modern His-tory (Macmillan), edited by Drs. A. W. Ward andG. W. Prothero and Mr. Stanley Ijcathes, considersNapoleon. In the nine hundred and forty-six pagesof this volume all the estimates of Napoleons characterand the valuations of his work that are worth con-sideration by the student and general reader are setforth, and an impartial survey of the facts in his careeris presented. It is admitted, .say the editors in theirpreface, that no other period in modern liistory, noother great historical jjcriod except of Alexanderthe (Jreat, Jvilins Crtsar, and Charlemagne, was so com-pletely dominated by a single personality. The facttliat most of his life Napoleon was hostile to GreatBritain cannot, the editors affirm, blind England to hisgreatness. It was only to Europe iu arms that the con-. (jneror of Europe succumbed. This work is as typo-graphically satisfactory as the rest of this monumentalseries, and is provided with indices, lists, bibliographies,and chapter , so as to make the information itcontains easily accessible. Perhaps the most famous Jew in the ofFrance was the celebrated liashi (Solomon bar Isaac),the eight hundredth anniversary of whose death wascelebrated some months ago by the Jewisli world. TheAmerican Jewish Publication Society has just broughtout a volume about Rashi to form one of the series ofbiographies of Jewish worthies. The present volumehas been written by Maurice Lieber and translatedfrom the French by Adele Szold. At a time when Egypt and things Egyptian are com-ing more and more into the public eye because of LordCromers splendid financial administration, and at the present m o m e n t be-cause of the difficultybetween England andTurkey, Sir AucklandColvins Making ofModern Egypt (Dut-
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